Full-Service Boutique Investment Bank · Jupiter, Florida · Est. 2001

The boutique investment bank that always puts you first.

Ascendiant is a full-service boutique investment bank providing corporate finance, M&A advisory, equity research, institutional sales and market making & trading to public and private growth companies — and to the institutional, strategic and accredited investors who back them. We have led or participated in more than $3 billion of financing transactions and completed more than 300 M&A transactions. Funding public companies is what we do.

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$3B+Financing led or participated
300+M&A transactions completed
50+Companies covered
24+Years in business

SEC-REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER MEMBER FINRA MEMBER SIPC 110 FRONT STREET, SUITE 300, JUPITER, FL

Announced

Announcing

AIM ImmunoTech Inc.

$3,300,000

Private Placement · NYSE American: AIM

Sole Placement Agent

ASCENDIANT CAPITAL MARKETS LLC

February 2025 · Ocala, Florida

Recent announced closings — sole placement agent

01 · Financing & EBITDA Multiple Modeler

What is your company worth — and what will you keep?

Drag your trailing-twelve-month financials, pick your sector multiple, and watch the enterprise value range, advisory fee and net proceeds reprice in real time. Illustrative only — a formal valuation opinion comes from a conversation, not a slider.

Inputs

Multiples reflect illustrative lower-middle-market transaction ranges by sector. All outputs are estimates for orientation only and do not constitute a valuation, fairness opinion, or offer of securities.

Indicative Enterprise Value — Technology
$30.0M

Range $25.5M — $34.5M · 10.0× EBITDA · 15.0% margin

Advisory Fee (Boutique) $1.40M

4.7% effective · retainer credited

Estimated Net Proceeds $22.88M

After fee, debt & estimated tax

EV Sensitivity — EBITDA × Multiple
EV vs. Multiple — $3.0M EBITDA
Illustrative Capital Stack & Financing Route
Senior Debt 35%Equity 65%
$3B+Financing transactions led or participated
300+M&A transactions completed
25+ yrsAverage investment banking experience
15+ yrsAverage trader experience

02 · Confidential Blind Teasers

The deal vault, under wraps.

A rotating shelf of live and recently completed mandates, presented blind — the same discipline we bring to every engagement. Financials stay blurred until a mutual NDA is on file. All profiles below are illustrative examples of mandate types we handle.

03 · Transaction Tombstone Archive

Forty stones from a $3B+ ledger.

Three announced closings are matters of public record. The remaining tombstones are illustrative — representative of the size, sector mix and buyer types behind 300+ completed M&A transactions and $3B+ of financing since 2001.

SOURCES: AIM ImmunoTech ($3.3M, Feb 2025) and Verb Technology ($3.0M, 2025) closings announced on Ascendiant's public channels; SINTX Technologies $12.04M public offering per firm transaction record. Illustrative stones follow verified firm-wide totals: $3B+ financing · 300+ M&A · 50+ covered companies · 24+ years.

"Most investors and bankers have only ever worked on transactions. We've run the businesses."

Before founding Ascendiant, our partners started, invested in and operated businesses of their own. Odyssey Sports was successfully sold to Callaway Golf. Another company they started together was taken public — providing direct experience raising capital, pursuing growth through acquisitions, and managing all aspects of a publicly-traded entity.

Ascendiant Capital Group launched in 2001 to put that operator's perspective to work for other founders — with the entrepreneurial spirit to back innovative ideas, emerging technologies and new business models.

Operators FirstFounded, managed and sold operating companies — including a public-company CEO seat.
Odyssey Sports → Callaway GolfA founding-partner company successfully sold to a strategic acquirer.
Taken PublicDirect experience raising capital and running a publicly-traded entity.
30 Professionals & GrowingKey markets throughout the United States and selected foreign markets.

04 · The Full-Service Deal Lifecycle

Eight stages. One accountable team.

Corporate finance through close — run by the same senior bankers, not handed across desks. Durations shown are typical; a lower-middle-market sale most often runs 6–12 months end to end, the middle market 8–14.

Indicative 20-week market window · compressed view of a 6–12 month engagement Week 0 — engagement begins
Wk 0 / 20

05 · Buyer Universe Concentration

The rolodex behind the auction.

150 modeled strategic and financial buyer profiles across the U.S. — the same segmentation we run on every mandate before a single call is placed. Outreach norms: 60–150 buyers contacted on lower-middle-market deals; 150–400 in the middle market. All profiles illustrative.

United States · dot = one buyer profile 150 matching · strategic / financial / institutional
Strategic acquirer Financial sponsor — PE / family office / search fund Institutional & accredited investor Dot size = acquisition appetite

Modeled on Ascendiant's stated investor relationships: institutional, strategic and accredited investors — from small technology firms to large multinational corporations — built over 24+ years and $3B+ of transactions.

06 · Our People

Operators first. Bankers by choice.

Thirty professionals and growing, located in key markets throughout the United States — with an average of 25+ years of investment banking experience and traders averaging 15+ years.

Bradley J. Wilhite

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ascendiant Capital Markets LLC — and of Ascendiant Capital Partners LLC, which makes direct investments in emerging growth companies. Since establishing Ascendiant in 2001, Mr. Wilhite has provided capital and strategic guidance to hundreds of emerging growth companies in the U.S. and selected foreign markets.

Prior to founding Ascendiant: a decade of management experience at First Union Corporation (now Wells Fargo, NYSE: WFC) and Fourth Financial Corporation (now Bank of America, NYSE: BAC), where he directed business lines, managed product launches and led M&A teams — and later served as President & CEO of a publicly-traded golf equipment manufacturer.

MBATCU · BBA FinanceU. of Chicago · Post-Grad FINRA Series 724637999 Former Public-Company CEO

T 561.427.1727

E bwilhite@ascendiant.com

Named professionals verified from public sources; remaining team members serve across investment banking, equity research, trading, compliance and administration. Big enough to deliver — small enough to care.

07 · What We Do

Value-added services, backed by experience & dedication.

With Ascendiant you're not another name on a spreadsheet. You're a client we care about — now and well into the future. We listen to your needs and objectives, then apply skills, experience and expertise to your situation.

Equity Research Coverage

08 · How We Work

Maximize relationships, not fees.

Here's our simple business philosophy: success is the client achieving its goals and realizing its potential. When capital is structured to truly meet your needs, you hire more employees, open a new building, expand R&D, sell more product, secure a strategic acquisition. That's our measure of success.

09 · The CIM Desk

Your confidential information memorandum, drafted.

Type a few facts about your company and preview the cover and structure of the CIM our Investment Banking division would prepare — the document that opens doors to 60–150 qualified buyers. Illustrative preview; the real thing is substantially better.

Company Facts

Strictly Confidential

Project Harbor

Consumer · Jupiter, FL

Confidential Information Memorandum

Prepared exclusively by
ASCENDIANT CAPITAL MARKETS LLC

February 2026

Structure Preview

    10 · Get in Touch

    Your goals are our goals.

    Whether you're seeking additional capital, looking to grow through acquisition, or considering the sale of your company — we can add value through the experience of managing businesses and the expertise gained advising hundreds of clients.

    1. 01A senior banker — not a junior associate — replies within one business day.
    2. 02A 45-minute call on your objectives, capital structure and alternatives. No exclusivity required; no right of first refusal.
    3. 03An indicative valuation range and engagement proposal within ten business days.
    ASCENDIANT CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
    110 Front Street, Suite 300 · Jupiter, Florida 33477
    T (561) 427-7788 · E info@ascendiant.com
    www.ascendiant.com

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